Title:
Sideshow : ten original tales of freaks, illusionists, and other matters odd and magical
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Deborah Noyes.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
Physical Description:
199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780763637521
Abstract:
Ten original tales by modern-day masters of the bizarre. Meet mediums and mummies, spinsters and bearded ladies, circus freaks and monsters of every sort!
Reading Level:
790 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 4.9 5 Quiz 133259 English fiction.
Added Author:
Contents:
The bearded girl / Aimee Bender -- Those psychics on TV / Vivian Vande Velde -- The year of the rat / Danica Novgorodoff -- The mummy's daughter / Annette Curtis Klause -- When God came to Kathleen's garden / David Almond -- The shadow troupe / Shawn Cheng -- Cat calls / Cynthia Leitich Smith -- The bread box / Cecil Castellucci -- Living curiosities / Margo Lanagan -- Jargo! / Matt Phelan.